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    JOJX Adds Director Andreas Roth To Its Roster For Spot Representation In U.S.

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Director Andreas Roth has joined the roster of L.A.-based JOJX for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S. His body of work spans such brands as Adidas, Audi, BMW, Fila, Heineken, Uniqlo, Lexus, Xbox, and Jaguar. Roth had been previously handled in the ad arena by RSA Films.

    Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Roth began his career as a production assistant and afterward as a junior editor at Jung von Matt. During that time he went on to direct his first client commercial at the age of 21 before heading to film school. Roth quickly gained momentum with high-profile projects, including a viral film for Dirt Devil which accumulated more than 30 million views on Vimeo. He is a two-time winner of the Young Director Award in Cannes and earned inclusion into the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase in 2011 and SHOOT’s New Directors Showcase in 2012, along with winning numerous other accolades and shortlists including Cannes Lions, D&AD, ADC, AICP Show, Epica and Eurobest.

    Roth also had the idea of gathering like-minded creatives together to push personal side projects as well as work outside the classic film jungle. One of these projects is the AKKURAT Journal, a magazine highlighting creatives and their work worldwide. Most recently he became a founding partner of his own creative label AKKURAT Studios to serve as a filmmaking and design imprint for himself. The company will officially launch in November but has already produced jobs for clients like Mercedes, Facebook, and Swiss luxury brand Bucherer.

    For feature films, Roth is represented by ICM.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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